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| OBJE:_META | <metadataxml><content><line><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;">Elias Osborne Timeline</span></span></strong></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;">Elias Osborn</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">, state grant # 1793, top of Baker&rsquo;s Ridge, Crab Fork of Prator&rsquo;s Creek</span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">1801</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;"> -&nbsp;<strong>Elias Orsborn</strong>, deed to John Poe, $100 for 150 ac, a head branch of Brushy Fork of Prators Creek, Bakers Ridge.</span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">1803, Nov.28 </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">Land Entry #1033 <strong>Elias Osbourn</strong> enters 200 ac in Ashe Co on Piney Br of Crambery Cr; border; begins at a white oak, runs up said branch, &amp; "various courses"; includes the vacant land "their abouts said land" that Owen Sismore entered in Wilkes [Co]. 1800 Census, Hawkins Co., TN: 83 fpc (no source citation).</span></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">1803</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;"> - Elisha Blevins, a partial warrant of survey for 50 acr on Praters Creek 1803 -&nbsp;<strong>Elias Osbourn</strong>, land entry # 1033, 200 ac on Piney Br of Cranberry Cr, said land that Owen Sismore entered in Wilkes County.</span></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">May Term A.D. 1807</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">. In a County Court begun and held in the County of Ashe on the second Monday being the 11th day of May A. D. 1807. <strong>Elias Ausbourn</strong> being sworn sayeth that he owes Helm and firm three dollars. Source: newrivernotes.com</span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">1816</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;"> -&nbsp;<strong>Elias Osbourn</strong>, land entry # 2958, 100 ac on Cranberry Cr, S. side of Pine Fork.</span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">1817 </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">- Thomas Callaway, land entry #3118, 100 ac Cranberry Cr; the land&nbsp;<strong>George Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;let&nbsp;<strong>Elias Osborn</strong>&nbsp;have, and the land where said&nbsp;<strong>Osborn</strong>&nbsp;lives.&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">1819</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;"> -&nbsp;<strong>Elias Osborn</strong>, land entry # 3324, 200 ac (Rotblf&rsquo;s ??) Fork of Cranberry Creek.</span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">There was approximately a 12 year span between the birth of&nbsp;<strong>George&rsquo;s</strong>&nbsp;third child&nbsp;<strong>Sally</strong>&nbsp;ca. 1775 and his fourth child Elizabeth ca. 1787. This long span between children may indicate that there were children who died young. One would speculate that there was a second marriage, but descendants of 3rd child&nbsp;<strong>Sally (Sizemore) Osborne</strong>&nbsp;born ca. 1775 indicate that&nbsp;<strong>Sally&rsquo;s</strong>&nbsp;mother was named&nbsp;<strong>Ana</strong>&nbsp;just as do the 4th and 5th children born 12 and 13 years after&nbsp;<strong>Sally.</strong>&nbsp;Because of the relationship with the&nbsp;<strong>Hart</strong>&nbsp;family as early as 1774, I will follow the premise that&nbsp;<strong>Anna Hart</strong>&nbsp;was the only wife. The ECA&rsquo;s mentioned earlier as being filed by two surviving grandchildren of&nbsp;<strong>George</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Anna,</strong>&nbsp;James Stamper son of Elizabeth Sizemore Stamper and Nancy Osborne Stamper daughter of&nbsp;<strong>Sally Sizemore Osborne</strong>, both list their grandparents as&nbsp;<strong>Ned</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Annie Sizemore</strong>. ECA&rsquo;s by two children of youngest son George J. Sizemore, both indicate that their grandparents were&nbsp;<strong>George</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Elizabeth Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;while other descendants of George J. indicate that&nbsp;<strong>Elizabeth</strong>&nbsp;was&nbsp;<strong>Annie Elizabeth Hart</strong>. Church records in Ashe County also seem to indicate that&nbsp;<strong>George&rsquo;s</strong>&nbsp;wife was named&nbsp;<strong>Elizabeth.</strong>&nbsp;(See Chronology 1812 and 1817 entries)</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black;"><br> <br> <span style="background: white;">The last time that I find&nbsp;<strong>George Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;in any official records is in the 1820 Ashe County Census where he was listed consecutively with his sons Edward, Owen and George. I have presumed that he died in Ashe County prior to 1830, but there are ECA&rsquo;s filed by descendants of his youngest son George J. which say that he went to Eastern Georgia about 1828. All records available to this writer other than the many contradictory ECA&rsquo;s collaborate my minority position that my ancestor Lydia Sizemore Blevins and her siblings were actually the children of&nbsp;<strong>George</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Anna</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Elizabeth (Hart) Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;and the grandchildren rather than children of&nbsp;<strong>Edward &ldquo;Ned&rdquo; Sizemore</strong>. I use the term minority position because there are other family members who take the larger number of ECA&rsquo;s as gospel and take offense at me for suggesting that a majority of the ECA&rsquo;s were inaccurate in stating that&nbsp;<strong>Ned Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;was the father. Perhaps the compromise point here is that taken by Ralph Schuler in his 1,000 page plus manuscript The Families of<strong>&nbsp;Ned Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;and James Blevins. Schuler concurs that Lydia and siblings were the children of&nbsp;<strong>George Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;and the grandchildren of&nbsp;<strong>Edward Sizemore</strong>. However Ralph lists George as the one called&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Old</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Ned&rdquo;</strong>&nbsp;a position supported by numerous ECA&rsquo;s.&nbsp;</span><br> <br> <span style="background: white;">Family tradition in my lifetime and certainly for the past two centuries has always held that this part of the&nbsp;<strong>Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;family was part Cherokee Indian. The evidence supporting this tradition comes from the ECA&rsquo;s and from the apparent Indian features of many family members in both 19th and early 20th century photographs. It is the opinion of this writer that although the&nbsp;<strong>Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;name is English, there is indeed an Indian ancestor who was possibly the wife or mother of&nbsp;<strong>Edward Sizemore,</strong>&nbsp;and that it is not unlikely that&nbsp;<strong>Anna Hart</strong>&nbsp;the wife of&nbsp;<strong>George Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;was also part Indian. Family names would support the theory that&nbsp;<strong>George Sizemore&rsquo;s</strong>&nbsp;mother was an Owen, while the only ECA identification may be that she was Elizabeth Jackson.&nbsp;<strong>George&rsquo;s</strong>&nbsp;father&nbsp;<strong>Edward</strong>&nbsp;was closely connected with the Owen, Jackson, Green and Griffith families in early Lunenburg County, VA.</span><br> <br> <strong><span style="background: white;">CHILDREN OF GEORGE AND ANNIE (HART) SIZEMORE</span></strong><span style="background: white;">:</span><br> <br> <span style="background: white;">+ 101. Catherine &ldquo;Dolly&rdquo; Sizemore b. ca. 1770 married James Hart</span><br> <span style="background: white;">+ 102. Lydia Sizemore b. ca. 1775 d. ca. 1830 married James Blevins</span><br> <span style="background: white;">+ 103.&nbsp;<strong>Sarah &ldquo;Sally&rdquo; Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;b. ca. 1775 d. ca. 1839 married&nbsp;<strong>Elias Osborne</strong>, s/o Robert Sr. &amp; Ann (Howard) Osborne</span><br> <span style="background: white;">+ 104. Elizabeth &ldquo;Betsy&rdquo; Sizemore b. ca.1787 d. ca. 1867 married Rev. Solomon Stamper</span><br> <span style="background: white;">+ 105. Edward B. Sizemore b. 1788 d. 1866 married Annie Baldwin</span><br> <span style="background: white;">+ 106. Owen Sizemore b. 1793 d. 1879 married Rebecca Anderson</span><br> <span style="background: white;">+ 107. Rev. George J. Sizemore b. 1797 d. ca. 1877 married Jennie Baldwin</span><br> <br> <span style="background: white;">22.&nbsp;OWEN SIZEMORE2<strong>&nbsp;(probably Edward &ldquo;Ned&rdquo; Sizemore)</strong>; born probably in VA or SC ca. 1755; died between 1836 and 1840 in Hawkins County, TN; married Elizabeth &ldquo;Betsy&rdquo; Brigham. Owen was consistently found in records of VA, SC, and NC with his brother<strong>&nbsp;George Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;during the 1770&rsquo;s period through 1800. Sometime prior to 1810, he moved his family to Hawkins County, Tennessee where he remained the rest of his life. His will dated March, 1836 named his wife and several children indicated in the chronology below. The chronology will also indicate that Owen was active in the Revolutionary War as a Tory in Virginia and later with the British Royalists forces in Camden, SC. He had one of the early land entries in Ashe County, NC, obtaining a 400 acre grant there in 1786 (although not otherwise found in NC until 1792). The 1800 Ashe, NC Census lists two daughters who have not been identified. I speculate that one of more of these older unknown daughters may have married before the family left Ashe for Hawkins and stayed in NC. Very possibly the oldest was Mary &ldquo;Polly&rdquo; Sizemore who married Randall Hubbard and lived in Ashe County. A daughter Cynthia (otherwise unidentified) is named in ECA&rsquo;s # 34400 and 40116. ECA 34400 also lists a daughter Tulesther not identified in Owen&rsquo;s will (could she be Tabitha who is not listed in that ECA?) Selected chronological records including Census for Owen Sizemore appear below.&nbsp;</span></span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">ECA = Eastern Cherokee Application, i.e. the number of the Claim filed by that individual with the U.S. Court of Claims in 1906 and 1907, and now available on microfilm at The National Archives</span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">ECA&rsquo;s filed by grandchildren of&nbsp;<strong>George</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Annie (Hart) Sizemore</strong>:</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black;"><br> <br> <strong><span style="background: white;">ECA # 1851</span></strong><span style="background: white;">&nbsp;by&nbsp;<strong>James Osborn</strong>&nbsp;of Park, Grayson Co, VA, born 1822 in Ashe, son of&nbsp;<strong>Elias Osborne</strong>&nbsp;and wife&nbsp;<strong>Sally Sizemore</strong>. Says that both parents were born in Ashe County, and that his father died ca. 1849, and his mother ca. 1839. Says that his mother was the daughter of&nbsp;<strong>Ned</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Ana Sizemore</strong>, and that their children were George, John, Owen, and Lida Sizemore,&nbsp;<strong>Sally Sizemore Osborn</strong>&nbsp;and Catharine Sizemore Hart. Lists his own siblings as&nbsp;<strong>Ezekiel Osborn</strong>&nbsp;d. 1848, Jesse Osborn d. 1853, Nancy Osborn d. 1849, David Osborn d. 1900, Epham Osborn d. 1894 and Geo. Osborn d. 1887. States ancestry as&nbsp;<strong>James Osborn</strong>, son of&nbsp;<strong>Elias</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Sally Osborn</strong>, daughter of&nbsp;<strong>Ned Sizemore&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;">&nbsp;</span></strong></p></line><line><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; color: black; background: white;">ECA # 12477&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">by David A. Osborne of Beldon, Ashe Co, NC, born 1869 in Ashe, son of&nbsp;<strong>James Osborne</strong>&nbsp;and wife Clemmanzy Bare. Says his father died in 1902 and mother in (1906?). Says grandparents were David and Nancy Osborne, and Joseph and Susie Bare. States ancestry as James Osborne my father was the son of David Osborne. David Osborne was the son of&nbsp;<strong>Jesse Osborne. Jesse Osborne</strong>&nbsp;was the son of&nbsp;<strong>Elias</strong>&nbsp;Osborne and&nbsp;<strong>Sally Osborne</strong>. Said&nbsp;<strong>Sally Osborne</strong>&nbsp;was the daughter of&nbsp;<strong>Ned</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Sizemore</strong>&nbsp;who was a full blood Cherokee Indian. There is much correspondence supporting this ECA. One letter dated 6 Dec. 1907 from Beldon, NC reads &ldquo;Nathan Bickford &amp; Associates - Washington, D.C. Gentlemen: &lsquo;After investigation, I find Ned Sizemore&rsquo;s wife&rsquo;s name was Nettie and that she died in Ashe (now Alleghany) Co., NC about the year 1859 or probably a little earlier. I think the following is a correct list of names of his children. viz.:&nbsp;<strong>George Sizemore</strong>, Ned Sizemore Jr, Owen Sizemore, Hiram Sizemore, Catherine Sizemore, Sally Sizemore, Lydia Sizemore, Dolly Sizemore and Bettie Sizemore. Bettie was called for a nickname &ldquo;Sookie&rdquo; she married a Stamper; Dolly married a Hash; Lydia married a Blevins; Catherine a Hart and&nbsp;<strong>Sally</strong>&nbsp;through whom the&nbsp;<strong>Osborne&rsquo;s</strong>&nbsp;claim married&nbsp;<strong>Elias Osborne</strong>. ....&rdquo;&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">1800 Ashe Co.NC p.87 1810 Ashe Co. NC p.4 1820 Ashe Co. NC p 16</span></span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">Owen Sizemore&nbsp;45+ wife and 6 children</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black;"><br> <span style="background: white;">1 female 26/44 page 5 Owen Sisemore 16/25 1 female 16/25<strong>&nbsp;J. Hart&nbsp;</strong>45+ wife and 4 children 3 females 10/15 1 female 45+ page 10 4 females 0/9 7 children James Blevins 45+ 1 male 0/9 1 female 45+&nbsp;J. Blevins 45+ 8 children&nbsp;<strong>James Hart</strong>&nbsp;45+ 1 female 26/44 1 female 26-44 5 children&nbsp;<strong>Edward Hart&nbsp;</strong>16/25 1 male 16-25 wife and 6 children 2 males 0-9 page 6 E. Sizemore 16/25 page 20&nbsp;<strong>Elias Osborn</strong>&nbsp;16-25 wife and 3 children<strong>&nbsp;Elias Osborn&nbsp;</strong>45+ 1 female 16-25 1 female 45+ 1 male 0-9 page 10 10 children&nbsp;S. Stamper 26/44 1 female 16/25 page 24 3 children Solomon Stamper<strong>&nbsp;</strong>26/44 1 female 26/44 page 11 8 children&nbsp;<strong>E. Osborn&nbsp;</strong>45+ 1 female 26/44 page 8 6 children Randal Hubbard<strong>&nbsp;</strong>26/44 page 12 1 female 26/44&nbsp;R. Hubbard 16/25 4 children</span><br> <span style="background: white;">1 female 16/25&nbsp;</span></span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif; color: black; background: white;">&nbsp;</span></p></line><line><p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'times new roman',serif;">&nbsp;</span></p></line></content></metadataxml> |
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Sarah SallySizemore Sarah Ann Sally Sizemore |
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Ashe, North Carolina, United States Alleghany/NC |
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